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According to Schaller, the deputies were at the motel attempting to serve a warrant when a silver Hyundai Accent pulled into the lot. The deputies were unaware that Vargas, a fugitive, was one of the two women in the vehicle, Schaller said.
When deputies approached, the car sped off and ran over the foot of one of the deputies. A deputy then fired a single shot at the car, which drove out of the motel parking lot and struck a street median.
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
However I believe that it is in the duty of any police officer to try to help the public
Originally posted by VariableConstant
reply to post by PhysicsAdept
I've had my foot run over before, and yeah, it hurt, but did the person that was driving deserve to die?
Originally posted by Exuberant1
If you were a cop and you killed that person, you'd have supporters on this site.
The kids have been raised in the police state. Where you can see the most heinous abuses to ever have occurred in this country, they see only what they saw every day of their short little lives. They think it is okay to electro-torture people and kill them for running over your foot (bot only if you are a cop lol). For the young, it has always been 'okay' to do such things in America.
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
Well said, like I have stated I am not totally disagreeing with you here. But still, there was no obvious attempt to harm anyone after the fact (as far as I know) and though she was running from the cops, a shot to the tire of the car seems more befitting to the crime. I mean, a foot for a foot.
She was shot in the chest... That makes me believe that the cop wasn't aiming to stop her, he must have been aiming to kill her
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
reply to post by Blanca Rose
Well the legal system just sucks in general. Tax dollars have no right to be used for supporting people in jail who may or may not belong there. Shooting someone for running over a foot... that is extremism. Keep in mind that the officer knew nothing of the lady except that she gave his foot an owie.
Perhaps he was as bad of a shot, as she was for maneuvering the car.